Analysis Of Grammar Thrax

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THRAX’S ART OF GRAMMAR: In the grammar Thrax dealt with what they would call the phonology and morphology of the language. Grammar is the technical knowledge of the language generally employed by poets and writers. It has six parts: i) correct pronunciation ii) explanation of the principal poetic tropes iii) Presentation and explanation and mythological examples iv) The discovery of etymologies v) The discovery of analogies, and vi) A critical consideration of the compositions of poets, which is the most noble part of this science. SYLLABLE: The syllable was the linking of vowels and consonants or several vowels with consonants, as in gar bonus. This was the syllable properly so called; improperly, a single vowels as a or e can be called …show more content…

The verb has eight simultaneous features: moods, kind, type, forms, number, person, tense, conjunction. There are five moods: indicating, imperative, optative, subjunctive and infinitive. There are three kinds of actives, middle, and passive: active’I strike’: passive ‘I am struck’ the middle expression both activity and positivity, the active is clearly distinct in form the middle/passive; the middle/passive are distinct formally only in some form,’I was myself’. I do it for myself. There are three forms, simple compared and derivative (formed from a compound: the “derived” type is formed from a simple form for …show more content…

There are four grades of the past, imperfect, perfect, pluperfect and aorist. Of these, there are related; the present was related to the imperfect; the perfect is related to the pluperfect, and the future was related to the aorist. PARTICIPLE: The participle was a word type that shares the properties of verb and noun. It has the same simultaneous features as noun and verb, except for person and mood. The article was in case –forming part of a sentence that precede or follows nouns. The one that precedes was ho (and so implicitly, he and to) and the one that follows was hos (hence, implicitly, the other relation, he, ho). Its simultaneous features are gender, number and case) PRONOUN: The pronoun was a part of a sentence that was used in a place of a noun and indicates a determined person. It has six simultaneous features, person, number, gender, case, form, and

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